With less than two months to go before the November election, we look a
new voter ID law in the battleground state of Pennsylvania. Studies have
shown as many as one million eligible voters in the state do not have
an acceptable identification under the new law, which requires all
voters to show a state driver’s license, government employee ID or a
non-driver ID card issued by the state. In Philadelphia, it has been
estimated that 18 percent of voters lack the proper ID. At least one
Republican politician, Pennsylvania House Majority Leader Mike Turzai,
has already boasted that the new voter ID law will help Mitt Romney win
the state. On Thursday, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court heard arguments
on whether to allow the controversial law to go into effect or to
approve a preliminary injunction. For more, we speak with two guests:
Vic Walczak of the American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania and
one of the co-counsels who argued the case, and Jessie Allen, assistant
professor at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. Video
Source: Democracy Now!
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